Guyana

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Co-operative Republic o Guyana
Banner Coat o airms
Motto: "One People, One Nation, One Destiny"
Anthem: Dear Land of Guyana, of Rivers and Plains
Caipital and largest city	Georgetown 6°46′N 58°10′W / 6.767°N 58.167°W / 6.767; -58.167
Offeecial leids	Inglis
Recognised regional leids	9 leids Akawaio Macushi Waiwai Arawak Patamona Warrau Carib Wapishana Arekuna
Vernacular leid	Guyanese Creole
Ither leids	6 leids Guyanese Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) Tamil Cheenese Portuguese Spaingie Yoruba
Ethnic groups (2002)	43.45% Indian 30.2% Black (African) 16.73% Mixed (includin Douglas) 9.16% Indigenous Amerindian 0.2% Portuguese 0.19% Chinese 0.06% European (non-Portuguese) 0.01% Ithers [1]
Releegion	57.4% Christian 28.4% Hindu 7.2% Muslim 0.5% Rastafarian 0.1% Bahá'í 1.3% Ither 0.9% Nae Statit 1.4% None [2]
Demonym(s)	Guyanese
Govrenment	Unitar presidential republic
• Preses	Irfaan Ali
• Prime Meenister	Mark Phillips
Legislatur	Naitional Assembly
Formation
• Dutch Guiana	1667–1814
• Breetish Guiana	1814–1966
• Unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick becomin Commonweel Realm o Guyana	26 Mey 1966
• Republic	23 Februar 1970
• Current constitution	6 October 1980
Aurie
• Total	214,970 km2 (83,000 sq mi) (85t)
• Water (%)	8.4
Population
• 2016 estimate	735,909[3] (165t)
• 2012 census	747,884[4]
• Density	3.502/km2 (9.1/sq mi) (232nt or 8t least-densely populatit in the warld)
GDP (PPP)	2016 estimate
• Total	$6.093 billion[5]
• Per capita	$7,919[5]
GDP (nominal)	2016 estimate
• Tot	$3.456 billion[5]
• Per capita	$4,492[5]
Gini (1998)	44.5[6] medium
HDI (2015)	0.638[7] medium · 127t
Currency	Guyanese dollar (GYD)
Time zone	UTC-4 (GYT (Guyana Time))
Drivin side	caur
Cawin code	+592
ISO 3166 code	GY
Internet TLD	.gy

Guyana, offeecially kent as the Co-operative Republic o Guyana, an previously kent as Breetish Guiana, is a state on the northren coast o Sooth Americae that is culturally pairt o the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana is a umwhile colony o the Breetish, Dutch an, for a brief period, the French. It is the anely state o the Commonwalth o Naitions on mainland Sooth Americae, an is forby a member o the Caribbean Commonty (CARICOM), that haes its secretariat heidquarters in Guyana's caipital, Georgetoun. Guyana achieved unthirldom fae the Unitit Kinrick on 26 Mey 1966 an becam a republic on 23 Februar 1970.^[8]

1. ↑ "CHAPTER II: POPULATION COMPOSITION" (PDF). StatisticsGuyana. Government of Guyana. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 21 Julie 2011. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
2. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived frae the original (PDF) on 21 Julie 2011. Retrieved 2 September 2017.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
3. ↑ "The World Factbook: Guyana". CIA. Archived frae the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 6 Januar 2014.
4. ↑ Guyana 2012 Census Archived 6 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine GeoHive– Guyana. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} "Guyana". International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 18 Apryle 2013.
6. ↑ "GINI index (World Bank estimate)". World Bank. Archived frae the original on 9 Februar 2015. Retrieved 22 Julie 2015. Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (help)
7. ↑ "2016 Human Development Report" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. 2016. Retrieved 21 Mairch 2017.
8. ↑ "Guyana: country profile". The Commonwealth yearbook. Commonwealth Secretariat. London: Hanson Cooke Ltd for the Commonwealth Secretariat. ISBN 978-1-908609-19-9. OCLC 1101219008.CS1 maint: others (link)